Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The 2016 chairman's columns have focused on  inspiring stories about hospitals and health systems...

Hospitals and health systems are working hard to ensure that every person in every community rece...

Improving the health of communities where people live, work and play is more important than ever....

To improve community health, Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics (MGH&FC) in Shelton, Wash...

Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to attain the new and demandi...

More and more hospitals are offering a wide variety of health and wellness programs and benefits ...

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

Here’s an excellent opportunity for health care executives to study and discuss pressing health c...

Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

Hospitals can create a culture of health in their own organization and in the community by develo...

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

As consumers increasingly rely on information and reviews from a variety of sources to access all...

This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweig...

Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...

Developing and sustaining hospital-community partnerships to address community health needs are c...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...

Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, ...

This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These ex...

Hospitals and communities are increasingly recognizing the importance of effective partnerships w...

For its excellent work addressing community health needs, Massachusetts General Hospital in Bosto...

Hospitals and health systems continually push to improve the health of their communities. Massach...

Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the ...

As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...

A powerful tool for hospitals to address priority health needs of their patient population and th...

Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance t...

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

June 5–11 is Community Health Improvement Week. The AHA’s Association for Community Health Improv...

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

Over the past 20 years, nursing homes have been undertaking a cultural transition to look and fee...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management in collaboration with the AHA's Hospitals in Pur...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

A new report from MHA and Collaborative Healthcare Strategies— State of the State: Reducing Readm...

This HPOE webinar takes an in-depth look into how the Massachusetts Hospital Association develope...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

At Boston Medical Center, a multidisciplinary team developed a strategy to reduce pulmonary compl...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

To effectively identify racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, it is essential ...

Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...